The Reading Workshop

Today's assignment in Reading Workshop is to write a blog post describing the school year so far. Students must give 3 or more exampl...

As we start a new year in Reading Workshop , one of the main goals is making writing meaningful using descriptive writing with many support...

As the Reading Workshop students begin to blog regularly (see links in the sidebar), one might question, what do you want the students to g...

In every class, in every subject, throughout their education, students will be required to respond to a prompt or question, especially on te...

Today we will be writing a scary story . When I told students this last week, they thought I had lost my mind. "It's not Hallowee...

All good writing has problems, lots and lots of problems, with lots and lots of details. The more problems in a narrative, and the more des...

Today we focused on the letter project. The topic of the day was adding details that support your thoughts, ideas, and opinions. We discus...